Yeah, riding the metro I came up with this thought. I think I would just find a lot of people to be really tedious, probably I would want to hang around people with a similar mindset. I think it would be kind of like how middle class people think of lower class people and all their dumb drama and dubious markers of success; but maybe I wouldn’t.
I don’t think you’re describing being a snob. I think you’re describing being grumpy. “Go away, kid, you bother me.”
I disagree. Let me digress, my SO thinksI’m grumpy, she doesn’t want to be in my post so she just left the room. Anyway, I think grumpy is more of a general mood. I would probably find certain types of people just really annoying. Like a lot of middle class people are really goal orientated and unimaginative, conformist - I would avoid them like the plague. I avoid them as much as I can now, but I’m not a snob, I think you need to be wealthy to be a snob.
I wouldn’t be a snob. But I suspect I wouldn’t handle wealth well. I’d probably end up as one of those rich people who spends his money in the gaudiest possible fashion.
“Opulence, I has it.”
I don’t think snobbery is restricted to the wealthy. All it requires is that you think you’re better than anyone else, even if it’s just in a narrow slice of life - like a wine snob or a fashion snob or a car snob. It applies to some in the “I don’t even own a television” crowd. I think it also applies to a friend of my parents who demanded that he be called “Doctor” when he got his PhD in some liberal arts field - he was sooooooo much better than the rest of us. Yeah.
No, I think snobbery is largely a product of insecurity and the need to reassure yourself that you’re better than “them.”
You don’t have to be rich to be a snob and you snobbery is not really a bad thing. Most people accept (and are comforted by) mediocrity. Snobbery is demanding more of the world.
A snob can be a trout bum making $20k a year who looks down on fly fishermen who wear waders in the water instead of just sandals and cut offs, or a pen and paper RPGer who looks down on computer gamers. It’s not the money, it’s the standards.
I would not think twice of sicking the dogs on any of you if I were to find you on my property.
I don’t think I’d be any more of a snob than I already am, but I do think I’d be more impatient.
One thing money can really do well is expedite things. That computer widget you ordered on the internet? Overnight Shipping every time. House is dirty? Buy a clean one. Annoying people knocking on your door? Send for the goons/trapdoor/hounds to deal with them 
What you’ve described is called a “self-righteous asshole.” You don’t need any money at all to be one, and frankly, if you think the only difference is money, you’re probably one already.
Wealthy people are no less tedious, goal oriented, unimaginative or conformist than the middle class in fact they might be more-so since they usually needed to be somewhat goal oriented to become wealthy in the first place. I actually have found that the higher up on the economic scale a neighborhood is, the more boring and tedious it’s occupants are.
Release the hounds!
I don’t think I’d be snobby - but I do think that a fair bit of people that are supposed to be my “peers” are locked in a mindset I want nothing to do with.
They want fast fancy cars. To me a car is merely a means of getting from point A to point B.
They love reality TV. Life is reality for me and when I want to be entertained I prefer paid actors/actresses.
They prefer bland/simple food. When I go out to eat I want to experience the world - Thai one night, Italian another, French after - variety!
Vacation for them is tourist traps and buying crap. For me it is going to unique locations experiencing new culture, or wonders of nature, unique landscapes.
They want big houses with huge rooms for their broods. I want just enough of a house with a big community areas and lots of land to move around in.
They see careers as life defining. I see a career as a necessary part of life, but not who I am.
Just different. And time with them is precious time wasted. Snobby?
Yes, you make a valid point, but I would disagree with some of what you are saying. I think what I’m saying is a little more along the lines of what Incubus is saying; I find certain people tedious now and might have less patience with them were I wealthy. I wouldn’t say that I feel self-righteous necessarily, I just wouldn’t want to bother with people who have certain mindsets - and pretty much the mindsets I would not want to deal with are ones that judge other people’s worth on things I think are dumb, or how successful they are at a given moment; stuff like that. A little along the lines of what AnthonyElite is saying too.
A lot of what madmonk28 said is relevant to what I think also. Really the question is why would I want to waste a lot of time with people who have all of these annoying arbitrary standards that they will judge me by? I find that this exists generally everywhere, but the middle class mindset is the most tedious, narrow and annoying. It is like some sort of oppressive judgmental religion.
Anyhow, this is really just what I thought on the Metro. For some reason I just had to post it even though it is somewhat mundane and pointless.
Point B is so passé these days; anyone who is anyone simply has to be seen at Point C.
You can be a snob in almost anything.
Earthy
Harley Davidson rider
Horse person
Skateboarder
Athlete
Goth
Musician
You name it, someone things they are better than everyone else just because they are big into that one thing.
I think this is true. I would like to avoid people like this. I especially have this thing against people who are very career proud - they just annoy me. Some of them write on this board all the time on and on and on about their jobs and how their coworkers suck and how wonderful they are for being where they are in their career. I just don’t have that mindset I never will. But say I was wealthy, these would probably be the first people to say something like “ohhh, what a snob,” or if I inherited money would probably look down upon me because I didn’t earn it like they supposedly did. I’m not making much sense probably.
What do you consider wealthy?
I have a fairly simple definition, wealthy is when you can maintain a comfortable and secure lifestyle without having to work or be on a government program. You may or mat not work, but it will not effect your lifestyle drastically. Someone with say 2 or 3 million dollars who owns their home outright and makes a passive income of say 60 or 70 thousand a year above inflation through very low risk investments is wealthy to me. Someone who makes 120 thousand a year through working and needs to work to continue to receive income is not wealthy to me, even though they may be currently making more income than in the first example.
I would sit in my white tower and launch fiery turds upon you savages.
Would they be your own turds, or the turds of your minions?
A man once wrote a review of one of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels.
He hated it. He hated everything about it.
The sex. The violence. The snobbery.
“And it’s not even proper snobbery. It’s the snobbery of an expense-account man.”
Only in England. 
In one of the later Bond novels, Fleming wrote, “Snobbery is the most egalitarian of vices. Everyone knows someone to whom they feel superior.”